Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Terje Strømberg
Alex, You need to go to Finder. 1. In the sidepanel, find Time Machine backups.Do not open in side panel. 2. vo + j to backups.backup 3. Open backups.backup 4. Open the next folder. 5. Then you should see backups with dates. To see dates more closely hit shift-vo + down arrow to interact with the

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i do have the new mac, so if i reinstall my mac on the login menu, do my mac go to the os which i bought on the first place which is mavericks? On 26 Jan 2014, at 02:34 am, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > My experience is that you don’t do the time machine backup until after you’ve > done the reinstall.

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Possibly corrupt, eh? Not too comforting, but if you've never run into that, I'm not overly concerned. I have my absolutely vital files stored in a Box account, just in case the worst happens. Well, a final check of my backups, and I'll run the install. See you all on the other side! :) Oh, in

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-26 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You are. You find exactly the same thing I do. The trick then is to open the backup you really want, then select the stuff you want and cut and paste like normal. Now, I should add that an Apple customer service person advised against this as it might corrupt some files: however, I have yet

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-25 Thread Alex Hall
Ray, did you mean restore instead of backup? Once my Mac has a fresh copy of mavericks on it, I don't want to restore everything. I want my iTunes library, work files, audio projects, and so on, but I don't want, for instance, my Applications folder or other system folders. I just had a peek at

Re: Restoring from Time Machine

2014-01-25 Thread Ray Foret Jr
My experience is that you don’t do the time machine backup until after you’ve done the reinstall. You want to go from Utitilies, select to do a time machine backup, then, from there, you are presented with a table of drives from whitch you can select the drive from which you wish to do a backu